Dale doesn't exactly look like an international crypto-criminal. He's soft-spoken, baby-faced, and a senior at an Ivy League college. But every couple of weeks the political science major logs onto the Silk Road, an online black market that has been described as an "amazon.com of drug...

Dale doesn't exactly look like an international crypto-criminal. He's soft-spoken, baby-faced, and a senior at an Ivy League college. But every couple of weeks the political science major logs onto the Silk Road, an online black market that has been described as an "amazon.com of drug...

Ask most fashion retailers where the leather in their bags, shoes and clothes comes from, and they'll tell you it's Italian. Italy has a long history of leather production. Doubtless it has some fine cows. But if all the accessories and shoes (of the latter, we produce around 11bn pai...

Advertising is not merely built upon data collection. It also requires interruption – what I call the "intrusive business model". I think the most potentially intractable problem that Google faces in its quest to create connected, personal hardware devices, one that Apple is liberated...

Liane Ng is 25 and single, works 60 hours a week, and until recently, shared a bedroom with her grandmother. Like many other Singaporeans, her life revolves around work, family and the stress of making ends meet in a nation that works the longest hours in the world. But lately her lif...

Bud Caddell is senior vice president and invention director at Deutsch LA. Caddell started his professional career as a designer and developer before transitioning to strategy and general consulting at the New York-based thinktank Undercurrent. Now at Deutsch, he sits squarely between...

Friends of the Earth has accused George Osborne of creating a bonanza for Britain's big energy companies by providing almost £1bn of tax breaks designed to boost North Sea oil and gas production. FoE said the chancellor was going against the advice of Jim Yong Kim, the president of th...

A Christian wears his crucifix necklace alongside a kavadi, a symbol of gratitude for blessings, during Thaipusam celebrations. The Hindu festival is observed on the night of the full moon during the Tamil calendar month of Thai and celebrated in honour of the deity Lord Murugan

Having been on a reading jag for the past couple of weeks, I am brimming with book recommendations. Unfortunately, according to newspaper tradition, people only ever want to see those lists in December and July. I will tell you, however, that Rupert Everett's latest volume of autobiog...

Having been on a reading jag for the past couple of weeks, I am brimming with book recommendations. Unfortunately, according to newspaper tradition, people only ever want to see those lists in December and July. I will tell you, however, that Rupert Everett's latest volume of autobiog...

Having been on a reading jag for the past couple of weeks, I am brimming with book recommendations. Unfortunately, according to newspaper tradition, people only ever want to see those lists in December and July. I will tell you, however, that Rupert Everett's latest volume of autobiog...

Having been on a reading jag for the past couple of weeks, I am brimming with book recommendations. Unfortunately, according to newspaper tradition, people only ever want to see those lists in December and July. I will tell you, however, that Rupert Everett's latest volume of autobiog...

France's richest man, Bernard Arnault , not only wants to become Belgian, he has moved a large part of his fortune north of the border, it was claimed on Thursday. The billionaire head of the luxury goods giant Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, who has applied for Belgian nationality, was ...

Snow leopards, the Himalayas, suitcase-backpacks, pounding techno and the Chapman Brothers: next season the Louis Vuitton man is a gentleman explorer heading out on a surreal yet super luxurious trip. Kim Jones, style director of menswear for the world's best-selling luxury brand, is ...

Planning for the future, providing competitive rates of pay and encouraging involvement with the private sector are just three of the lessons the UK can learn from Singapore's civil service, according to former cabinet secretary and head of the civil service Gus O'Donnell . Speaking a...

It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI , the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as y...

Rita Levi-Montalcini, who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Medicine for her contribution to the discovery of nerve growth factor. Photograph: Alessandra Benedetti. Nobel Prize-winning neurobiologist Rita Levi-Montalcini died on Sunday, December 30th in Rome, at the age of 103. Levi-Mont...

The helicopter cuts a sharp arc away from the sea and sweeps over pagoda-topped hills and dusty farmland until a mass of dirty white tents comes into view. Soon throngs of people can be seen coming out of their makeshift homes and rushing towards the airfield, until they resemble a hu...

The Indian medical student whose gang rape triggered mass protests calling for better protection for women against sexual violence has died. The 23-year-old – who was severely beaten, raped and thrown out of a moving bus in Delhi – died on Friday in the Singapore hospital where she wa...

The Indian medical student whose gang rape triggered mass protests calling for better protection for women against sexual violence has died. The 23-year-old – who was severely beaten, raped and thrown out of a moving bus in Delhi – died on Friday in the Singapore hospital where she wa...

The Indian medical student whose gang rape triggered mass protests calling for better protection for women against sexual violence has died. The 23-year-old – who was severely beaten, raped and thrown out of a moving bus in Delhi – died on Friday in the Singapore hospital where she wa...

A young woman who was gang-raped on a moving bus in Delhi and left with severe internal injuries has been flown to a Singapore hospital for treatment that could last several weeks, officials said. The 23-year-old student, who is in a critical condition, arrived in Singapore in an air ...

A young woman who was gang-raped and assaulted on a moving bus in Delhi has been flown to a Singapore hospital for treatment of severe internal injuries that could last several weeks, officials said. The 23-year-old student, who is in critical condition, arrived in Singapore on an air...

1. The win a Victoria Beckham for thecorner.com handbag competition (the "Competition") is open to residents of the UK aged 18 and over. 2. Employees or agencies of Guardian News & Media Limited ("GNM", "We") its group companies or their family members, or anyone else connected with t...

In Southeast Asia, there is an island called Sumatra. On Sumatra there is an extinct volcano. On that extinct volcano, there is a small lake, Lake Toba. In the middle of Lake Toba, there is a tiny island. This tiny island in a volcanic lake is, however, the same size as Singapore . Da...

This week on Tech Weekly with Aleks Krotoski, we meet the CEO and founder of Shutterstock.com John Oranger. John talks to Guardian technology editor Charles Arthur about his data-driven twist on the photo-library business and why cheap high-quality cameras are allowing both photograph...

This week on Tech Weekly with Aleks Krotoski, we meet the CEO and founder of Shutterstock.com John Oranger. John talks to Guardian technology editor Charles Arthur about his data-driven twist on the photo-library business and why cheap high-quality cameras are allowing both photograph...

The virtual currency Bitcoin took a step towards legitimacy today as its eurozone wing joined the ranks of PayPal and Worldpay by becoming a registered payment services provider (PSP) under European law. Under a deal made in France with the investment firm Aqoba and the Crédit Mutuel ...